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Allan Wirth
Also filed as: WIRTH ALLAN
46 granted patents·1 pending application·2,058 citations·filing 1985–2007
99Inventor score
Files withMETROLOGIC INSTR INC30ADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS7UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP5NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP2ADAPTIVE OPTICS ASSOC INC1
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47 records- 0198US6739511B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 25, 2004·115 cites·12 claims
- 0298US6736321B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 18, 2004·179 cites·14 claims
- 0397US6863216B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying spatial phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetFiled 2002·Granted Mar 8, 2005·70 cites·28 claims
- 0497US6742707B1Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before the beam illuminates the target object by applying spatial phase shifting techniques during the transmission of the plib theretowardsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 1, 2004·84 cites·16 claims
- 0596US6971577B2Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·57 cites·14 claims
- 0696US6857570B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal frequency modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 22, 2005·66 cites·9 claims
- 0795US6830185B2Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 14, 2004·56 cites·14 claims
- 0895US6709108B2Ophthalmic instrument with adaptive optic subsystem that measures aberrations (including higher order aberrations) of a human eye and that provides a view of compensation of such aberrations to the human eyeADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 23, 2004·355 cites·37 claims
- 0995US6629641B2Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 7, 2003·60 cites·33 claims
- 1095US6595642B2Ophthalmic instrument having Hartmann wavefront sensor with extended sourceADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 22, 2003·94 cites·19 claims
- 1194US7457545B2Process for controlling a Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) in an adaptive optic (AO) systemNORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 25, 2008·30 cites·6 claims
- 1294US7437077B2Wavefront sensing system employing active updating of reference positions and subaperture locations on wavefront sensorNORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 14, 2008·35 cites·20 claims
- 1394US6978936B2Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objectsMETPOLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·59 cites·14 claims
- 1493US7527200B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·17 cites·10 claims
- 1592US7343099B2Free space optical (FSO) laser communication system employing fade mitigation measures based on laser beam speckle tracking and locking principlesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 11, 2008·46 cites·28 claims
- 1692US7131586B2Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 7, 2006·36 cites·18 claims
- 1790US7600689B2Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 13, 2009·15 cites·3 claims
- 1889US4725138AOptical wavefront sensing systemADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 1985·Granted Feb 16, 1988·89 cites·27 claims
- 1986US6971576B2Generalized method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and particular forms of apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam after it illuminates the target by applying spatial intensity modulation techniques during the detection of the reflected/scattered plibMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·17 cites·10 claims
- 2086US6669341B2Ophthalmic instrument having wavefront sensor with multiple imaging devices that simultaneously capture multiple images of an array of spots produced by a lenslet arrayMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 30, 2003·34 cites·21 claims
- 2186US4737621AIntegrated adaptive optical wavefront sensing and compensating systemADAPTIVE OPTICS ASSOC INC·Filed 1985·Granted Apr 12, 1988·97 cites·13 claims
- 2285US6830189B2Method of and system for producing digital images of objects with subtantially reduced speckle-noise patterns by illuminating said objects with spatially and/or temporally coherent-reduced planar laser illuminationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 14, 2004·40 cites·8 claims
- 2384US6991165B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal intensity modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·9 cites·24 claims
- 2484US5270859AOptical instrument with micro-lensesUNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Dec 14, 1993·76 cites·4 claims
- 2583US6978935B2Planar light illumination and imaging (pliim) based system having a linear image detection chip mounting assembly with means for preventing misalignment between the field of view (fov) of said linear image detection chip and the co-planar laser illumination beam (plib) produced by said pliim based system, in response to thermal expansion and/or contraction within said pliim based systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·9 cites·30 claims
- 2682US6953151B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) based camera system for automatically producing digital linear images of a moving object, containing pixels having a substantially square aspect-ratio independent of the measured range and/or a velocity of said moving objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 11, 2005·12 cites·14 claims
- 2781US7832643B2Hand-supported planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systems with laser despeckling mechanisms integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 16, 2010·7 cites·29 claims
- 2881US7673803B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 9, 2010·7 cites·14 claims
- 2981US7584893B2Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarketsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 8, 2009·7 cites·22 claims
- 3081US6880756B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam (plib) after it illuminates the target by applying temporal intensity modulation techniques during the detection of the reflected/scattered plibMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 19, 2005·6 cites·6 claims
- 3180US7513428B2Planar laser illumination and imaging device employing laser current modulation to generate spectral components and reduce temporal coherence of laser beam, so as to achieve a reduction in speckle-pattern noise during time-averaged detection of images of objects illuminated thereby during imaging operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 7, 2009·6 cites·16 claims
- 3278US6969001B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying spatial intensity modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 29, 2005·6 cites·14 claims
- 3378US6649895B1Dispersed Hartmann sensor and method for mirror segment alignment and phasingADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 18, 2003·16 cites·10 claims
- 3478US6631991B2Ophthalmic instrument having hartmann wavefront sensor deriving location of spots with spot fitting techniquesADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 14, 2003·18 cites·9 claims
- 3577US7527202B2Hand-supportable planar linear illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based code symbol reading systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·5 cites·8 claims
- 3677US7140543B2Planar light illumination and imaging device with modulated coherent illumination that reduces speckle noise induced by coherent illuminationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 28, 2006·37 cites·22 claims
- 3777US6971575B2Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) device employing a pair of linear laser diode arrays mounted about an area image detection array, for illuminating an object to be imaged with a plurality of optically-combined spatially-incoherent planar laser illumination beams (plibs) scanned through the field of view (fov) of said area image detection array, and reducing the speckle-pattern noise power in detected 2-d images by temporally-averaging detected speckle-noise patternsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·8 cites·30 claims
- 3874US7581681B2Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarketsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 1, 2009·4 cites·24 claims
- 3974US5164578ATwo-dimensional OCP wavefront sensor employing one-dimensional optical detectionUNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Nov 17, 1992·47 cites·5 claims
- 4073US7070106B2Internet-based remote monitoring, configuration and service (RMCS) system capable of monitoring, configuring and servicing a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based networkMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 4, 2006·20 cites·33 claims
- 4173US6630656B2Method and apparatus for wavefront measurement that resolves the 2-π ambiguity in such measurement and adaptive optics systems utilizing sameADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 7, 2003·13 cites·27 claims
- 4273US5291334AMicro-lens panoramic imagerUNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 1, 1994·43 cites·21 claims
- 4371US7161128B2Optical instrument employing a wavefront sensor capable of coarse and fine phase measurement capabilities during first and second modes of operationADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 9, 2007·12 cites·5 claims
- 4457US7143943B2Method of producing digital images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and electronic image detection arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 5, 2006·3 cites·7 claims
- 4554US5083015AOptical centroid processor wavefront sensorUNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Jan 21, 1992·20 cites·17 claims
- 4651US5146073ALinear wavefront sensor camera with deformable mirror for recording velocity compensated imagesUNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 8, 1992·16 cites·4 claims
- 4746US2007194207A1Method and apparatus for wavefront measurement that resolves the 2-pi ambiguity in such measurement and adaptive optics systems utilizing sameMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
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